Tire



G. JACOBS.

TIRE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 4, 1920.

1 424 3 0; Patented 1, 1922.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Aug. 1 1922.

Application fi1ed.0ctober 4,1920. Serial No. 414,4(i'7.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern.

it known that I, Gnoncn J 100E387 acitizen oi the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigam have invented certain. new and. usetul Improvements lnTlres, oi which the following is a specification, reference being bad thereinto the accompanying drawings. y;

This invention relates to tires, and the primary object of my invention is to dis pense with the usual circumferential inner tube of an outer tire casing andprovide a series of independent cushion members which may be safely housed. within the outer casing of a tire to afford a cushion there-for, the cushion members being disposed and protected by the outer casing so as to reduce to a minimum the possibility of the members bursting due to excessive pressure thereon. i y

' Another object of this invention is to provide an outer tire casing for housing individual cushion members with the casing constructed. to afford secondary cushioning members which are automatically brought into action after the primary cushion memhere have been subjected to a predetermined degree of pressure. x 4 I A. further object ofthis invention is to provide a pneumatic vtirewhichwill afford a large tread for a wheel and the tireis constructed to shape itself to a surface, for instance on a curved section of road, so as to prevent skidding o'l a wheel provided with the tire.

The above are a few of the objects which may be attained by my tire and reference will now be had to the preferred form of construction as illustrated in the drawings, wherein- I Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a wheel having a tire which is partly broken away, partly in section, and partly depressed;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view taken on the line 11-11 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a similar view taken on the line III-III of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary sectional view showing a portion of the tire depressed;

Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view of a portion of one of the cushion members illustrating compression thereof, and.

pression of the tire. T i X in the drawimg the reference numeral 1 Fig. 6is similar view illustrating comdenotes a wheel body having a rim or telly and mounted on thefrim or telly is an outer tire casing 3fwhich is comparatively fiat in contradistinction to the usual tubu-' lar. or cylindrical tire. The outercasing 3 s oblong in cross section and has clencher edges 4, adapte'dto be held on the rim 2 by clencher members ficonnected to the side walls of the rim 2 screw bolts, 6 or other fastening means. The clencher edges 4, members 5 and screw bolts 6 represent any suitable means for retaining the outer tire casing on thewhe'elrim. r

The outer tire casing 3 has a comparatively thick tread and the inner wall thereof is formed with transversely disposed integral secondary cushion members 7 which serve functionally astransverse partitions for dividingthe casing 3 into a multiplicity of compartments 8 for individual primary cushion members 9. The cushion members 7 areof a less width than the casing 3, as best i shown in Fig. 3, sothat the ends of the cushion members wiil be in spaced relation to the side walls of thecasing and thus provide clearance spaces 10 cir'cuinferentially of the casing at the ends of thecushion members. The secondary cushion members are also of less depth than the casing 3 so that there will be an intervening space 11 between the cushion members 7 and the rim 2. of the wheel and it is these. interveningspaces 11 that permit of the primary cushion members 9 being brought into actionin advance ot'the cushion members 7.

The cushion members 7 have longitudinal concaved walls 12 which provide clearance for the cushion members 9 when compressed or distorted. and with the cushion members 7 bearing on the wheel rim 2 the cushion members 9 are braced and held against excessive compression.

Each cushion member 9 is somewhat sausage shaped in elevation and when placed between adjacent cushioning members 7 the tread portion of the casing 3 is supported relative to the wheel rim 9. The ends of each cushion member 9 conform to the side walls of the outer casing 3, as best shown in Fig. 2, and each cushion member isadapt'ed to be inflated or filled through the youter casing fi may. be distended tofextend over the clencher members 5 Wheuthe tread outer casing 23*.

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) fore such expans on takes place the con and ' medium of a} filling, connection 13 carried by c the :ivheel rim 2 and normally closed "by av conventional form of check valve 14; cushion members 9anayibe:individually int-t Hated orthe filling Connections 13 may all be in'communication with acommon source er:

air or filling matefrial (not shown).

As. illustrated at the depressed portionof.

the tire, in Fig. l and; shown diugramrneti- Cally in Figs. 5 and '6, the side Wallsofthe orperiphery of the tire'is depressed, and

,Whenthis takes place the cushion members 9 Wells 1" 2 'otthe cushion nuerrjrbersv '1- are gagedby theiwalls of the cushion mem the cush on members 7 engage. the

rim For. further co npresslon o f thejcushion members 9 1t is necessary; to compress the cushion members 7, and Lit believed that this degree compression will bef ijery, seldom encountered during the operation o fithe ti eyon'a Wheel,

" t h l i s ie me bers7 snu eml eipunetiirecl" the inflated members will susbraeing the Wallsno l th efcushi on members 9" du "ng'fcoinpression, itispractically impossible; for the c ushion members 9 to burst and should any partipula j compression member tai i tlieloed, and prevent complete'collapse casing; Even soashould this liappen thereis still a resilient tire for the ylieel, as therushion members T'Iwiltmain- Of the outer stain the outer, casing 3 in spacedreletion to the wheel. rim, and the .t1re may be used ting, eushioii members on said rim, and

without any danger of "rim cuts or injury 'whlch would render the outercaslng use x it thougllt bhet;tl e utility ofniy inw entlon Will be apparent Without further description, and While in the drawings there illustrated a preferred embodiment ofmy' invention, It is to be understoodthat "the structural elements are susceptible to such Variations and modifications as fall Within the scope of the appended claims.

l/Vhat I claim isE-er v 1 In a vehicle wl'leel, a rim an outer easondary cushion. members carried by said outerc'asing between said cushion members on sa d run and normally adapted to engage said rim. 1 V l 2; it Wheel "comprising a body having a rim, an outer easinglm-ving 'itssedges con nested to said rim bblong transverselydis sec 1 posed cushion members' in said. outer casing 1 id'rim, and means carried by said outer an ewent excessive compression of said cus on members. 1

' a vehicle Wheel, arim, an outercasg ing', cushion members on'saicl rim, secondary H e adeptedtoengege'the rim between first mentioned cushion membei'sjsaid eusltiion "inembe'rs carried bysaid' casinsg and i l v t no the secondary cushion members being of less trensverse length than the cushion members on the rim whereby the cushlon 'members on the riminay beaeiqjunded fat the ends olfthe secondary cushion members.

lntestimon'y whereof I my signature in presence of two wltnesses.

, v GEORGE JACOBS, lli ituesses; 1

Aime M. Dorie, IQXRLlHiBFITLER/* a n normally adaptedto engage said rim 

